A country template is useful in building a standard project for a specific country. A standard project contains definitions for all the required settings for each process, therefore, a user can create and run projects without spending a lot of time configuring the project.
As you become familiar with using the Trillium DQ application, you will typically customize projects settings to exactly match your needs. However, the country templates enable Trillium users to use the product “out of the box.” There is country-specific support for over 190 countries. The level of support varies by country, ranging from robust to basic. Each support level is defined as follows:
Robust—Country-specific standardization and matching rules. At minimum, street-level address correction, validation, and formatting. Over thirty countries supported, including US, Canada, France, Australia, United Kingdom, and Germany.
Standard—Country-specific standardization and matching rules. City correction, validation, and address formatting. Sixteen countries supported, including Turkey, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia.
Basic—City-level correction and validation. Includes support for over 180 countries not included in the Robust and Standard categories.
When you install Trillium DQ, the countries covered by your license agreement are automatically delivered. Templates are provided for countries in the robust and standard support levels, but not for the basic level. You can expand the level of coverage for one or more of the basic countries by defining a template based on the template of a standard country.
You cannot use a country that has a Postal Matcher as the basis for a new template. All of the settings and rules for those countries are based on the use of a Postal Matcher, but user-defined country templates do not have a Postal Matcher. You can, however, use the word and pattern tables from a country that has a Postal Matcher.